SARAWAK: Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak takut dengan Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud menjadi antara punca utama Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) tidak mengambil tindakan terhadap Ketua Menteri Sarawak itu.

Pengerusi Majlis Pimpinan Negeri KEADILAN Sarawak, Baru Bian, berkata ia dapat dilihat melalui sikap berdiam diri SPRM walaupun pendedahan mengenai kekayaaan Taib Mahmud kerap didedahkan.

Bercakap kepada Suara Keadilan, Baru Bian menyifatkan sikap pengecut Najib menyebabkan SPRM tidak berani menjalankan tanggungjawab dan hanya bersikap menunggu arahan pihak atasan.

“Najib percaya Taib Mahmud mampu memberi kemenangan dalam pilihan raya Sarawak. Ini yang menyebabkan sampai sekarang dia (Taib) tidak disiasat SPRM.

“Bagi Najib, yang penting bukan rakyat tetapi kemenangan kerusi. Banyak berlaku penyelewengan, tetapi tiada apa tindakan yang diambil daripada mana-mana pihak,” katanya.

Baru Bian berkata, jalan terbaik untuk menjatuhkan Taib Mahmud ialah melalui pilihan raya umum akan datang ekoran keengganan ketua menteri itu melepaskan jawatannya lebih 30 tahun berkuasa.

“Diktator seperti itu susah diajar. Kaedah terbaik untuk jatuhkan beliau melalui pilihan raya memandangkan Najib sendiri tidak mengambil sikap sewajarnya sebagai Perdana Menteri,” katanya.

Beliau turut menggesa rakyat Sarawak belajar dari pengalaman Mesir yang menggulingkan pemerintah kuku besi.

“Semua rakyat Sarawak mesti ambil iktibar, bagaimana rakyat bersatu menjatuhkan pemimpin yang menindas dan membelakangkan kepentingan orang ramai,” katanya.

 Laman sesawangSarawak Report terus mendedahkan pembelian tanah yang mencurigakan membabitkan Ketua Menteri, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud dan keluarganya. Kali ini, membabitkan kawasan sekitar Sri Aman dan dikatakan bernilai dehingga RM90 juta. Tanah 8,800 hektar itu terletak di daerah Bijat di Sungai Tisak, timur dari Kuching.

Mengikut kumpulan pejuang pribumi, Sadia Native Customary Rights (NCR) tanah itu kepunyaan masyarakat Iban.Sadia melaporkan 15 komuniti Iban menduduki tanah itu akan terjejas apabila tanah berkenaan dikatakan akan diberi secara percuma kepada anak lelaki Taib, Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib, dijual kepada Felcra untuk penanaman semula kelapa sawit.

“Masyarakat tempatan Iban berkata pembalak masuk ke kawasan mereka tanpa sebarang makluman empat bulan lalu. Mereka baru menyedari apa yang terjadi dan sekrang ini benar-benar berang.

“Tiada sesiapa yang memberitahu mereka siapa sebenarnya pembalak itudan mereka juga tidak tahu mengenai pembabitan rancangan anak Taib yang mahu menukarkan kawasan itu menjadi ladang kelapa sawit,” lapor laman sesawang itu, Rabu lalu. Katanya lagi, Pejabat Tanah Daerah, beberap hari lalu mengeluarkan surat kepada 16 ketua masyarakat Iban memanggil mereka untuk bermesyuarat tanpa dimaklumkan agendanya. 

Menurut Sarawak Report, ketua-ketua Iban itu percaya mesyuarat adalah berkaitan dengan pengambilan tanah mereka sambil berkata tanah mereka juga dirampas dua tahun lalu. Laporan itu mendakwa perjanjian yang dibuat pada Disember 2008 di mana Jabatan Ukur dan Pemetaan yang dikuasai oleh Taib Mahmud atas kapasiti sebagai menteri perancangan dan pengurusan sumber telah dengan rasminya menyerahkan tanh itu kepada Titanium Management Sdn Bhd.

Titanium dimiliki hampir sepenuhnya oleh anak ketua menteri, Mahmud dan seorang kroni perniagaan yang dikenali sebagai Chris Chung Soon Nam (bawah, kiri). Tanah adat NCR itu dianugerahkan kepada Mahmud sebagai balasan untuk 'bayaran tertentu yang tidak dijelaskan' kata laporan itu sambil menambah urusniaga seumpama itu adalah cara lazim oleh kerajaan Sarawak yang mempunyai kepentingan keluarga Taib.

“Titanium terkenal dengan beberapa 'skandal berprofil tinggi' termasuk menerima beberapa kontrak kerajaan negeri sejak beberapa tahun lalu.”

Tahun lalu, semasa wawancara Al-Jazeera dengan Menteri Pembangunan Tanah, Sarawak, Datuk James Masing mengakui pembinaan beberapa jambatan diserahkan kepada Titanium tanpa tender terbuka. Chung dilaporkan cuba menjual tanah adat Iban itu kepada Felcra 'untuk sekurang-kurangnya RM 3,200 seekar tetapi cuba mendapatkan harga RM 4,200 bagi setiap ekar,” kata laporan sesawang itu. (AK)

Tidak hairanlah mengapa Taib Mahmud, Ketua Menteri Sarawak masih tidak membubarkan DUN Negeri sekalipun tempoh akhir kian menghampiri. Pelbagai andaian yang dibuat, namun Taib Mahmud kekal mendiamkan diri dan tidak menunjukkan sebarang tanda-tanda untuk membubarkan DUN. Ada juga yang berpendapat DUN Sarawak besar kemungkinan akan dibubarkan serentak dengan Parlimen bagi membolehkan Pilihanraya Umum Ke-13 diadakan.

Rupa-rupanya Taib Mahmud yang dikata macam-macam ni sudah nampak apa yang akan berlaku seandainya dia membubarkan DUN Negeri. Sah kompom Sarawak akan jatuh ke tangan Pakatan andai nya Taib Mahmud membubarkan DUN dalam masa terdekat ini.

Jawapan nya.......

PKR Seri Aman sudah menemui formula. Bayangkan dengan kehadhiran hanya 30 orang, Jimmy Donald boleh dapat 450 undi jawatan MPP yang ditandingi. Itu pengganda sebanyak 15 kali.

Seorang jurugambar laman Sarawak Report didakwa telah dikasari ketika merakam gambar individu yang keluar masuk daripada sebuah apartmen mewah di London.

Individu yang melakukan perbuatan itu didakwa merupakan kakitangan kepada keluarga ketua menteri Sarawak Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, lapor laman berkenaan.

Laporan laman itu juga mendakwa, salah seorang pemandu Taib telah mencengkam leher jurugambar wanita itu dan memaksanya memadamkan rakaman yang dibuat.

Insiden itu berlaku apabila anak ketua menteri itu, Sulaiman Abdul Rahman yang juga MP Kota Samarahan meminta kakitangannya supaya keluar daripada apartmen mewah di Hyde Park itu untuk mengenalpasti wanita berkenaan, lapor laman tersebut.

Seorang pemandu kepada timbalan menteri pelancongan itu kemudiannya keluar dan "menyerang" jurugambar berkenaan sehingga beliau diselamatkan oleh seorang saksi di tempat kejadian, menurut laporan itu lagi.

Sarawak Report seterusnya menyebut, tindakan itu antara lainnya menunjukkan bahawa keluarga Taib tidak menghargai tindakan laman tersebut dalam memberikan publisiti mengenai harta yang dimiliki mereka.

Menurut laporan itu lagi, insiden berkenaan kini berada dalam siasatan polis UK.

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According to further allegations in the current court case between Dato’ Ting Check Sii and Tufail Mahmud in Sibu, Japanese investors in the Noda Corporation, a major public company which is quoted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, have been cheated out of millions of ringgit by members of the Chief Minister’s family. 

This highly serious claim forms part of a string of accusations lodged by one of Sarawak’s most respected businessmen, Dato’ Ting Check Sii, against the Chief Minister’s brother Tufail Mahmud, sister Hanifa Taib, niece Anita Tufail and nephew Mohammad Tufail. 

Dato Ting is the man behind the Sanyan Tower, Sarawak’s tallest building in Sibu and the multi-million dollar Sanyan Group of companies.  His allegations also implicate the Japanese Directors of a Sarawak subsidiary of the Noda Corporation, the Ishinomaki Plywood Manufacturing Company, whom he says knew about the fraud but failed to prevent it.  Baca Seterusnya

Taib’s Bomoh confided before he died that he had warned the Chief Minister in 2003 that he should stand down within 7 years!  However, this piece of advice apparently signalled the beginning of the end Taib’s relationship with his long-trusted soothsayer. 

As we recently revealed [see Part I of our exclusive revelations],Taib had retained the witchdoctor for decades as his secret adviser and practitioner of black magic.  However, on this occasion the Chief Minister found his guidance for the first time unpalatable.  According to close observers, the relationship between the two men began to break down from this moment.

“In 2003 the Bomoh said “step down or it will be a disaster for you”, explains one confident of Ustaz, “However, Taib had come to think that his power was God-given and he did not need the Bomoh anymore.  This incident might have angered Taib and his family members and therefore Ustaz was slowly dropped and side-lined”.

The confidant believes that Ustaz became ever more troubled as the ‘first family’ started to become arrogant and over-reach themselves in later years.  He felt they had started to believe they could do whatever they liked and were above the law and was dismayed at their treatment of people who got in their way.

Distancing

Reconciliation - White Haired Rajah and Sea Pirate

Sarawak Report is publishing this material because its source is a deep insider with impeccable credentials and access to information on this subject.   Our informant tells us that this breakdown of trust was followed by another major disagreement when the Bomoh advised against Taib’s public reconciliation with his uncle Tun Rahman Ya’ kub in 2007. 

Taib had fallen out with the previous Chief Minister during the so-called ‘Ming Court Affair’ in 1987.  To many this seemed to be a mysterious political feud, but it actually had its origins in an ugly family matter between the two men.  Ustaz had been a close adviser to Taib when he split with his uncle and hugely disapproved of Tun Rahman.

However, after many years of emnity during which Taib and his family referred to the uncle as ‘lanun’ (sea pirate), the Chief Minister eventually saw political advantages in promoting Tun Rahman’s daughter, Norah Tun Abdul Rahman, after she made an advantageous marriage  to the brother of the Prime Minister of Malaysia. So he decided to mend relations. 

'Entrepreneurial MP' - Norah Abdul Rahman was elected unopposed in 2008

 This made the Bomoh very angry, but Taib saw to it that by the next year in 2008 Norah was placed unopposed into a Federal Parliamentary seat and settled into a top commercial role as ‘Executive Chairman of Tanjung Manis Halal Hub Development’ (a project that plans to destroy another huge area of Sarawak’s remaining natural environment)!   Norah now likes to pose as an ‘Entrepreneurial Malaysian MP’, as she is gushingly described in the Tanjun Manis website, but like all the youthful Taib family female proteges she owes her grand position, salary and titles to family connections rather than business prowess.

By the middle of 2008 the Bomoh was a totally disappointed man, say his confidantes.  Sick and broken, he left for Pakistan and died on 3rd October.  After his death Taib’s brother Tufail engaged 2 more Pakistani bomohs and brought them to Sarawak where astonished on-lookers witnessed them chanting and praying in the middle of a court room as they attempted to assist Tufail in the outcome of a recent court case.   However, it has been pointed out that Taib’s corrupt control over the judiciary will be of more tangible benefit when it comes to influencing the outcome of the case.

Shocking influence

Tufail's latest Bomoh's - chanting disruptively in court

However, the testimony of those who were close to Ustaz during his heyday as Taib’s advisor provides a fascinating insight into the Chief Minister’s bizarre and superstitious habits.   For example, the Bomoh would always encourage Taib to grow his beard before an election or a crisis, giving those in the know a clear indication of what plans were afoot:

“Taib himself would consult Ustaz in the dates of nomination and polling for State Elections, which would normally fall on ’9′ or a multiple of ’9′ like ’18′ and ’27′”, explains one insider in an authored document provided to Sarawak Report.

 The same document goes on to say the superstitious CM would also would also consult Ustaz for ‘important political strategies, both State and Federal’:

Firstly, “for dealing with Federal Ministers, especially new PM’s, Ustaz’s advice was indispensable”.  Secondly,  “to appoint and dismiss State Ministers and CEOs of both Sate-owned and Taib-family-owned companies”. Thirdly, ” The other members of the Taib family always consult Ustaz on important matters like investments both locally and overseas, the most suitable dates and time for earth breaking, topping out ceremonies, house warming, engagement and marriage, and also the appointment of key personnel in their own companies etc.”

Ustaz - escorted in Taib's jet and lived the high-life, but it all went sour after he advised Taib to step down!

Many in their inner circle believe that the Taibs think that the help of their bomohs has assisted immensely in Taib’s political career and has assisted him and his family to excel in their obtaining of riches and amassing of properties.

If this is the case, Sarawak Report wonders if Taib’s belated decision to abandon the advice of his once trusted Bomoh and to refuse to listen to his common sense warning that an old man like him should realise when his time is up, could signal the end of that run of luck and the destruction of all that ill-gotten wealth?

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Taib Handed Rockefeller $100 million - Whistleblower's Letter

Following the tragic death of Ross Boyert, which we announced earlier this week, Sarawak Report has decided to publish in full the amazing allegations contained in a personal letter he wrote to his employer, the Chief Minister of Sarawak.

Berikutan dari kematian tragik Ross Boyent, seperti yang diumumkan awal minggu ini, Sarawak Reportmemutuskan untuk menyiarkan sepenuhnya tuduhan yang terkandung dalam surat peribadinya yang dihantar kepada bosnya, Ketua Menteri Sarawak.

Company letterhead. Boyert wrote as the former Vice-President of Sakti International to the majority shareholder, Abdul Taib Mahmud

Kepala surat syarikat. Boyert telah menulis atas nama bekas Naib Presiden Sakti International kepada pemegang saham terbesar, Abdul Taib Mahmud.

The 388 page document, sent after Boyert was sacked in November 2006, begged Taib to put to an end what he described as appalling treatment in return for his years of hard work building the family’s US property company, Sakti International, into a multi-million dollar business.

Dokumen setebal 388 muka surat telah dihantar selepas Boyert dipecat pada November 2006, merayu Taib supaya menghentikan apa yang disifatkannya sebagai sudah terlanjur jauh, sebagai pulangan di atas bertahun-tahun usaha kerasnya membangunkan harta milik keluarga di US, Sakti International, menjadi perniagaan puluhan juta ringgit. 

He also complained how he had to rescue the disastrous mismanagement of the company by Taib’s son, Rahman, and put a halt to a catastrophic building project, by his son-in-law Sean Murray, which was condemned on safety-grounds by the San Fransciso authorities.

Dia juga mendakwa betapa payahnya dia menyelamatkan kepincangan yang berlaku dalam pengurusan yang selama ini dipegang oleh anak Taib, Rahman, dan dan menjebakkannya dalam projek bangunan dalam bahaya , oleh menantu lelakinya Sean Murray, yang dituduh oleh pihak berkuasa San Franscisco sebagai tidak selamat.

[TO VIEW THE FULL DOCUMENT CLICK ON THE ICONS BENEATH THIS ARTICLE. SOME FAMILY DETAILS ERASED].

[UNTUK MELIHAT SENARAI PENUH DOKUMEN, KLIK PADA IKON DI BAWAH ARTIKEL INI. BEBERAPA MAKLUMAT KELUARGA TELAH DIPADAMKAN]

Key revelations

In the letter Boyert detailed bitter divisions and rivalries between Taib family members; described what he regarded as bullying tactics by Taib’s ambitious son-in-law, the Canadian Sean Murray, and related how Murray bragged about the Chief Minister’s extreme wealth. When Murray approached Boyert to help run the family’s US properties in 1994, he even disclosed Taib’s billionaire status and revealed that the Chief Minister had just met with billionaire banker David Rockefeller and made an astonishing deposit of money:

Dalam surat tersebut, Boyert dengan terpeinci menjelaskan betapa huru-hara dan persaingan berlaku dalam ahli keluarga Taib, menjelaskan apa yang didakwanya sebagai taktik buli menantu lelakinya, Sean Murray yang terlalu berciti-cita tinggi, dan mengaitkan bagaimana betapa cakap besar Murray Taib mempunyai harta terlalu banyak. Apabila Murray mendekati Boyert meminta bantuan untuk menguruskan harta keluarga mereka di US pada 1994, dia menutup segala maklumat berkaitan suatus bilionair Taib dan mendedahkan bahawa Ketua Menteri hanya bertemu dengan pemilik bank bilionair David Rockerfeller dan membuat urusniaga wang masuk.

Indiscreet? Boyert acquired much of his information from family members

Terbongkar? Boyert mempunyai lebih dari maklumat berkaitan daripada orang lain dalam keluarga Taib

Junior partner - Hisham (Sean) Murray, Jamilah's younger husband

Rakan junior - Hisham (Sean) Murray, suami muda Jamilah

Empire Bulding

Bangunan Empire

The letter goes on to explain how it was Boyert’s deteriorating relationship with Sean Murray that led to his summary dismissal twelve years later and a bitter court case. In that period Boyert describes a family torn apart by rivalries and greed, which as an employee he strove to manage.

Surat ini membawa kita menjelaskan bagaimana hubungan dingin Boyert dengan Sean Murray membawa kita kepada pemecatan menyeluruh 12 tahun selepas itu dan kes mahkamah yang perit. Dalam tempoh itu, Boyert mengumpamakan sebagai hubungan keluarga yang makin retak disebabkan saingan dan ketamakan, yang menyebabkan pekerja sukar untuk menguruskannya.

The worst jealousies, he described were those between Taib’s sons, Rahman and Mahmud, and his son-in-law, Hisham (Sean Murray), who they believed was ’Empire Building’ within the network of Taib property companies based in Canada, the US, Britain and Australia.

Kecemburuan yang paling teruk, dia menjelaskan antara anak-anak Taib, Rahman dan Mahmud, dan menatu lelakinya, Hisham (Sena Murray), yang dia percaya "Bangunan Empire" adalah dalam rangkaian harta syarikat Taib yang berpangkalan di Kanada, US, Britain dan Australia.

“As Rahman had told me many, many times, Sean was busy empire building, I was immediately on guard”, wrote Ross, as he explained to the Chief Minister why he had been reluctant to accept Murray’s original announcement that he had replaced Rahman (Sulaiman) Taib as President of Sakti International in 2005. Boyert angered the Canadian by insisting on documented evidence, signed by all the company’s official family shareholders. Sakti is the Taibs’ main property company in the USA and Boyert was employed as its Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer.

"Menurut Rahman yang bercerita kepada ramai orang, beberapa kali, Sean adalah "Bangunan Empire yang sibuk", saya dengan segera mengawalnya, tulis Ross, setelah dia memberitahu Ketua Menteri kenapa dia enggan menerima pengumuman asal yang dibuat oleh Murray yang dia (Murray) menggantikan Rahman sebagai Presiden Sakti International pada 2005. Boyert marah dengan warga Kanada itu (Ross) dengan memintanya mengemukakan dokumen sebagai bukti, yang ditandatangani oleh semua pemegang saham dalam syarikat. Sakti adalah harta utama syarikat Taib di USA dan Boyert telah diamabil bekerja sebagai Naib Presiden dan Ketua Pegawai Operasinya.

Ridiculed? - son Mahmud Taib and his wife

Seakan mengejek? - Anak Taib, Mahmud dan isterinya

“It [a remark] reminded me how Sean would speak ill of Rahman when he was discussing their interaction. In fact, in a recent call, Sean said the board meetings he attended droned on-and-on with Mahmud constantly talking but saying nothing. He couldn’t believe how stupid it was and if not for him, the Kuching Convention Center would have been a total failure since he changed the design facing away, rather than towards, the river.

"Ia (petanda) mengingatkan saya bagaimana Sean mengutuk Rahman apabila dia bercakap mengenai interaksi antara mereka berdua. Sebenarnya, dalam perbualan telefon baru-baru ini, Sean memberitahu mesyuarat Lembaga Pengarah yang dia hadiri, hanya mendengar pekikian Mahmud terus-terusan tetapi langsung tiada apa-apa manfaat. Dia tidak percaya betapa bodohnya Mahmud, dan disebabkan kerana dia, Pusat Konvensyen Kuching hampir menjadi kegagalan mutlak sejak dia mengubah corak membelakang, dari menghadap sungai.

A tactic that backfired

It is likely however, that by confiding in this way to Abdul Taib Mahmud, a man he had met but a few times, and by revealing that he was fully aware of the Chief Minister’s great wealth and commanding role in the company (which was meant to be a closely-guarded secret), Boyert had naively sealed his own fate. Instead of gaining sympathy, it is likely he would have incurred the old man’s ire and convinced him that with all this knowledge, he was a dangerous liability to his company and reputation.

Taktik yang memakan diri

Bagaimanapun, dengan mengandaikan inilah memperincikan cerita cara Abdul Taib Mahmud, seorang lelaki dengan topi tapi beberapa kali, dan dengan dirinya sedar kekayaannya sebagai Ketua Menteri dan mengawasi perjalanan syarikatnya (yang bermaksud rahsia dikawal rapi), Boyert akhirnya dengan jujur dan sederhana menentukan nasibnya. Daripada mendapat simpati, nampaknya "nasibnya" kini telah menumbulkan kegusaran baru terhadap orang tua itu, dan dengan segala pengetahuan dalam genggamannya, dia (Boyert) sudah menjadi liabiliti berbahaya kepada syarikat dan reputasinya.

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